CCAB Agro S.A. and Grupo InVivo highlight Brazil's role in food production, for Ban Ki-moon

At a meeting in Paris, this Wednesday (19), in which he was accompanied by the executive president of the InVivo Group, Thierry Blandinieres, the CEO of Companhia das Cooperativas Agrícolas do Brasil (CCAB Agro S.A), Jones Yasuda, talked about the position strategy of the country in world food production with two of the most important international personalities on the topic of food security today, the former Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon and the candidate for France and the European Union for the position of Director General of the FAO, Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle. On the occasion, executives from CCAB and InVivo invited both to meet, on-site visit, the Brazilian model of rural food production.

Yasuda reiterated the prediction made by FAO itself that, within ten years, Brazil will have to guarantee food for 400 million people more than the current 1,2 billion, who already depend on Brazilian crops and plantations to meet their nutritional needs. daily. “This represents food on the plates of approximately 16% of the world’s population. And the area we dedicated to this is only 10% of our territory”, he pondered.

He highlighted the high productivity achieved in the country's crops, thanks to the incorporation of technologies and sustainable production management. He also highlighted the efforts of CCAB, a company that represents 55 thousand food producers in Brazil, to guarantee their access to crop protection solutions, without which the large-scale growth of tropical agriculture would be unviable. Since 2016, the Brazilian company has been part of the international platform of the Invivo Group, formed by rural producers and agricultural cooperatives from France.

“Producing food is Brazil’s greatest vocation, and we are doing it more and better. We have the most complete environmental legislation in the world, an effective forestry code, strict labor laws and agronomic competence to rationally use environmental, social and financial resources. This is the basic foundation of sustainable production”, he added.

Ban Ki-moon was the eighth secretary general of the UN and is now president of the Institute for Global Engagement & Empowerment(IGEE), from Yonsei University, which contributes to implementing the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle bases her campaign proposals at the helm of FAO, for the period 2019/2023, on universalization of food, eradication of hunger and climate change.